(1) You've got that shiny new promotion and the job looks great - but do you really know what you're letting yourself in for?
(2) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
(3) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
(4) This is why, preposterously, America is able to confirm plans to send four shiny F-16 fighter jets to Egyptian military on Thursday, while still talking democracy and inclusion for Egypt's transitional process.
(5) With her background in radio, news and current affairs her supporters say she realises that if she wants to be director general she needs more populist programming and the "shiny floor experience" that the Vision post would bring - but she dislikes exposure so much it is not obvious she would enjoy the public pressures of the top job.
(6) The first symptom is usually Raynaud's phenomenon, followed by skin changes; at the beginning the skin is swollen and oedematous, and then becomes thick, taut, shiny and atrophic.
(7) But Sky, which has built its business on the back of Premier League football and other live sports, chose Wednesday to talk up its new schedule and technological advances at its own shiny new £330m studio complex in west London.
(8) Outside the branch in Rochdale, sandwiched between a Nationwide and a bookmakers, Nora McDowell, a retired school cook whose son works at the bank's shiny new Manchester headquarters, said she was disappointed the bank would not be owned by the mutual any more.
(9) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(10) Equipment Let's be honest: good coffee depends heavily on equipment, which is why so many connoisseurs generally prefer to go out to a cafe with huge, shiny professional machines and baristas who have studied their craft in Milan and Melbourne, while their own over-complicated, underpowered espresso-makers gather dust in the kitchen.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
(12) Sitting in a shiny studio peopled with uniformed soldiers, athletes, doctors and more, a heavily bronzed Putin held forth for four hours and 47 minutes, beating his previous record by 15 minutes.
(13) Ownership of eight cattle and a shiny steel roof on their wood hut indicates relative prosperity.
(14) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(15) 1. pale mucosa; 2. shiny surface and 3. prominent submucosal vessels.
(16) Shareholders may be forgiven for thinking wistfully of the £55 which Pfizer offered to pay for each of their shiny shares.
(17) This was made more explicit as the show developed – the addition of shiny PVC jackets in red, yellow and orange had the clean, zesty futurism popular during the decade.
(18) Europe’s elites have surely been guilty of letting political idealism run ahead of hard-nosed economics – thinking that by constructing a shiny new set of institutions and rules, they could just legislate away the deep differences between European economies.
(19) It has a full operating theatre, with shiny metal and glass equipment.
(20) It's causing Kenya – despite all our growth, the shiny buildings, all the nice cars – to head towards failure."
Spiny
Definition:
(a.) Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
(a.) Like a spine in shape; slender.
(a.) Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.
(n.) See Spinny.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that: (1) catecholaminergic (mainly dopaminergic) and prefrontal cortical terminals in the nucleus accumbens septi dually synapse on common spiny neurons; and (2) dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area receive monosynaptic input from prefrontal cortical afferents.
(2) The responses of a population of 30 olfactory receptor cells from spiny lobsters to 8 behaviorally relevant complex types of stimuli at 0.005, 0.05 and 0.5 mM were analyzed using multidimensional scaling to evaluate their potential for coding quality and intensity.
(3) Extracellular responses to complex biologically relevant stimuli were recorded from 30 primary olfactory cells from excised antennules of spiny lobsters.
(4) Earlier studies identified purinergic chemoreceptors in the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.
(5) We speculate that in the adult neostriatum, the protein may be important in the remodeling of synapses onto medium spiny neurons that involve, in part, the corticostriatal pathway.
(6) Tissue from the digitiform rectal gland of the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, was fixed briefly by formaldehyde perfusion and studied for the specificity and localization of p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (NPP'ase) activity.
(7) Type 2 multipolar cells are large neurons endowed with numerous primary spiny dendrites constituting a wide round dendritic field and with a thick axon.
(8) Spiny seahorse lives among a rare marine plant called eelgrass, which only grows in shallow sheltered seas in south-west England.
(9) The axon of the spiny type II neuron is long and has collaterals which are poorly arborized in comparison to those of spiny type I cells.
(10) Neurons of medium size with spine-rich dendrites (spiny type I) are the most frequent type.
(11) When taken together these cases show that just over 50% of the degenerating terminals are presynaptic to spiny appendages and are located within the synaptic clusters (glomeruli) described previously (King, '76).
(12) The external surface of the hypostome possesses cnidocils, possibly sensory hairs, and small spiny protrusions surrounding the mouth; the internal surface has cylindrical microvilli, free flagella and adherent flagella.
(13) Finally, they are at variance with the classical concept which subdivides cortical neurons into projection neurons (pyramidal and spiny stellate) and interneurons (non-pyramidal, local circuit neurons).
(14) Leishmania braziliensis panamensis has been isolated in culture from one spiny-pocket mouse (Heteromys dermarestianus) out of 43 examined, proving that rodents of this genus can be reservoirs of Leishmania of the braziliensis complex as well as of mexicana in Latin America.
(15) Several types of NPY-containing neurons can be distinguished by their laminar location, by the size of their perikarya, and by the size, shape, and pattern of ramification of their processes: 1) layer I small local circuit neurons; 2) layer II granule cells; 3) aspiny stellate cells located in layers II-III and V-VI, with long, slender dendrites; 4) sparsely spiny stellate cells; 5) aspiny stellate cells with long, horizontally oriented dendrites, whose cell body is situated in layer VI; 6) Martinotti cells in areas 9, 7, and 24; and 7) multipolar neurons situated in the white matter subjacent to the cortical gray.
(16) The naturally occurring dynamics of presynaptic axon terminals were investigated in the dentate gyrus and stratum lucidum of the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) during maturation, adulthood and aging.
(17) Light and electron microscopy showed intense and extensive labeling of immunoreactive calbindin-D28k in the cell bodies, dendrites, and spines of medium-sized neostriatal spiny neurons and in their axon terminals which end in the globus pallidus.
(18) The SFGS was seen to contain pyramidal neurons with spiny dendrites in the SM, together with fusiform, multipolar and horizontal neurons.
(19) Spiny extrusions are present on many of the neurons, arranged either as varicosities giving a rosary feature or clumped in small groups over the dendritic processes; these are absent at the level of the soma.
(20) This is a report of experiments which provide evidence in support of the existence of an electric sense in the echidna, or spiny anteater Tachyglossus aculeatus.